near that it intersected his immediate circumstances. In other words, Paul was facing imminent death, and with it, the realization of all his eternal hopes. For a man who had longed for nothing more than to see his Savior face to face, death was the fulfillment of a deep longing (cf. Philippians 3:10–11). But what of the man for whom the future holds little more than the sight of one interminable day stretching into another with no sign of relief, with no hint that the God to whom he has entrusted